242] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1790. 
of the right hon. fir Capel Moly- 
neux, bart. 
Hon. Mifs Fitzgibbon, eldeft 
daughter of the lord chancellor. 
At hischateau at Aix-la-Chapelle, 
of a fecond ftroke of the palfy, in 
his 73d year, the right hon. Geo. 
Auguftus Eliott, lord Heathfield, 
K. B.. governor of Gibraltar, and 
colonel of the 15th regiment of 
light dragoons.—He was born in 
1718; and received the firft rudi- 
ments of his education under a pri- 
vate tutor, and at an early time of 
life’ was fent to the univerfity of 
Leyden, where he made confider- 
able progrefs in elaffical learning, 
and {poke with fluency and elegance 
the German and French languages. 
Being defigned for a military life, 
he was fent from thence to the cele- 
brated Ecole Royale du Genie Mi- 
litaire, at La Fere in Picardy, 
where he laid the foundation of 
what he fo confpicuoufly exhibited 
at the defence of Gibraltar. In 
1735, he became a volunteer in the 
23d regiment of foot, or Royal 
Welch Fuzileers, and foon after 
was admitted into the engineer 
corps ‘at Woolwich; from whence 
he purchafed the adjutancy of the 
2d troop of hoffe -grenadiers, in 
which he became a captain and 
major, as well as lieutenant-colonel, 
when he refigned his commiffion as 
an engineer. In 1759 he quitted 
the horfe-guards; and was feleéted 
to raife, form, and difcipiine the 1ft 
regiment of light~horfe, which bore 
his name. Having gone through 
various departments in different fer- 
vices with the greateft marks of 
bravery and military knowledge, in 
#775 he was-appointed Commander 
in chief in Ireland, which he foon 
relinguiihed,- and was appointed to 
the command of Gibraltar, in a for- 
tunate hour for the fafety of that im- 
portant fortrefs ; where he, by a cool 
and temperate demeanour, main- 
tained his ftation for three years of 
conftant inveftment, in which all the 
powers of Spain were employed, 
and where he never fpent his am- 
munition in ufelefs parade, but feiz- 
ed on the proper moment, with the 
keeneft perfpection, to make his at- 
tack with fuccefs, which ever crown- 
ed his endeavours. All the eyes of 
Europe were on‘ this garrifon; and 
his conduét as juftly exalted him to 
the moft elevated rank in the mili- 
tary annals of the day. On his re- 
turn to England, the gratitude of 
the Britifh fenate was as forward as 
the public voice in giving him that 
diftinguifhed mark his, merit de- 
ferved, to which his majefty. was 
pleafed to add that of the peerage, 
by the title of lord Heathfield, baron 
Gibraltar, on June \14, 1787, and 
permitting his lordfhip to take alfo 
the arms of the fortrefs he had fo 
bravely defended, to perpetuate to 
futurity his noble condu&.—He 
married Anne, daughter of fir Fran- 
cis Drake, of Devonfhire, and had 
by her (who died in 1769) Francis 
Auguitus, now lord Heathfield, lieu- 
tenant-colonel of the 6th regiment 
of horfe. 
Lady Anne Paterfon, reli& of 
fir John Paterfon, bart. of Eccles, 
near Kelfo, and daughter of the 
earl of Marchmont. 
Sir Tho. Geo. Shipwith, bart. the © ~ 
title is-{uppofed to defcend to a 
relation in Virginia. 
Sir Peter Heyman, bart. of So- 
merfield, Kent. He was formerly in 
the navy; and at the age of 17 
married Mifs Kempe, daughter and 
fole heirefs of —--—- Kempe, efq. of 
Plymouth, by whom he had three 
children, who, as well as_his lady, 
are long fince dead; and he leaving 
no iflue, the title devolves to the 
+ Rev. 
